With camp being just 4 days a week, we were a little worried about how we’d fill the long weekend. Overall the kids seem to be happy here, but it’s hot, which leads to a lot of complaining and turns into sibling squabbles. In short, we are grateful for camp days. But we ended up having a great weekend!
Friday morning we met with Floating Doctors and planned out the clinics we will help with in July. We’ll take small skiffs out to villages 4-5 hours away and camp. It sounds like it’ll definitely be “type 2” fun, but hopefully a good growing experience for us all. That afternoon we biked about 20 minutes out of town to a restaurant with a pool on the beach. It cost $10 for the kids to swim which was worth every penny!
Saturday we took a water taxi to a beach on the neighboring island. We had lunch and swam in the ocean for a bit before a huge storm rolled in. We took cover in a little beachside pizza shack with several other families. There was a small break in the storm about an hour in so we waved down a water taxi and made it home just before the rain picked back up. No pictures of this crazy afternoon.
We decided Sunday is our cleaning day. Blythe was thrilled with this news - the other two - not so much. Walker is earning points for doing his summer reading and writing homework, which resulted in a soda outing with dad. Us girls decided to check out the new nail salon in town. Blythe wanted us to all wear dresses, so we got dressed up for our girls outing. I’m so grateful for these slow days and all the time we get to spend together. And we’re also excited for camp to start back up tomorrow :)
tessa linderman
48 chapters
15 Jun 2023
Bocas
With camp being just 4 days a week, we were a little worried about how we’d fill the long weekend. Overall the kids seem to be happy here, but it’s hot, which leads to a lot of complaining and turns into sibling squabbles. In short, we are grateful for camp days. But we ended up having a great weekend!
Friday morning we met with Floating Doctors and planned out the clinics we will help with in July. We’ll take small skiffs out to villages 4-5 hours away and camp. It sounds like it’ll definitely be “type 2” fun, but hopefully a good growing experience for us all. That afternoon we biked about 20 minutes out of town to a restaurant with a pool on the beach. It cost $10 for the kids to swim which was worth every penny!
Saturday we took a water taxi to a beach on the neighboring island. We had lunch and swam in the ocean for a bit before a huge storm rolled in. We took cover in a little beachside pizza shack with several other families. There was a small break in the storm about an hour in so we waved down a water taxi and made it home just before the rain picked back up. No pictures of this crazy afternoon.
We decided Sunday is our cleaning day. Blythe was thrilled with this news - the other two - not so much. Walker is earning points for doing his summer reading and writing homework, which resulted in a soda outing with dad. Us girls decided to check out the new nail salon in town. Blythe wanted us to all wear dresses, so we got dressed up for our girls outing. I’m so grateful for these slow days and all the time we get to spend together. And we’re also excited for camp to start back up tomorrow :)
1.
Our adventure begins
2.
Panama Canal
3.
Travel to Bocas
4.
Bikes & Umbrellas
5.
Normal Day
6.
Father’s Day
7.
Camp
8.
Week One
9.
Weekend fun
10.
Art week
11.
Home Life
12.
Stormy Saturday
13.
Birthday parties
14.
4th of July
15.
End of camp
16.
Starting our Staycation
17.
Staycation continues
18.
“No fun at all” day
19.
Beautiful Boquete
20.
Voting Day
21.
Volcan Baru
22.
Exploring Boquete
23.
Last days in Boquete
24.
Summer days
25.
Last week of summer
26.
First week of school
27.
After school fun
28.
Meet Tuga!
29.
Injuries de Panama
30.
Silly faces de Panama
31.
Rest of August
32.
September adventures
33.
Baby sea turtles!
34.
Féria del Mar & other festivites
35.
From Bocas to Barrow
36.
Fall fun
37.
Happy 4th Birthday, Rose!
38.
Road trip
39.
Mini Olympics
40.
October days
41.
Pistotniks in Panama
42.
Halloween parties
43.
Walks, Donsi & Mera!
44.
Parties, parties & more parties!
45.
Thanksgiving
46.
Mosaics & Dancing
47.
Our last weekend
48.
Saying goodbye
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